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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Big Temptation, by L. T. Meade and M. B. Manwell and Maggie Brown This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Big Temptation Author: L. T. Meade M. B. Manwell Maggie Brown Illustrator: Arthur A. Dixon Release Date: May 14, 2008 [EBook #25467] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BIG TEMPTATION *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. A Big Temptation. [Illustration: "_What are you doing with that baby?_"] A Big Temptation By L. T. Meade, And Other Stories by M. B. Manwell and Maggie Browne Illustrated by Arthur A. Dixon LONDON: _Printed in Bavaria._ _NEW YORK:_ ERNEST NISTER. 640. E. P. DUTTON & CO. [Illustration] A Big Temptation By L. T. Meade. Netty stood on the doorstep of a rickety old house and nursed the baby. She was ten years old and had the perfectly white face of a child who had never felt any fresher air than that which blows in a London court. It is true that the year before she had gone with her brother Ben into the country. The Ladies' Committee of the Holiday Fund had arranged the matter, and Netty and Ben had gone away. They had spent a whole delicious fortnight in a place where trees waved, and the air blew fresh, and there were lots of wildflowers to pick; and she had run about under the trees, and slept at night in the tiniest little room in the world, and in the cleanest bed, and had awakened each morning to hear the doves cooing and the birds singing, and she had thought then that no happiness could be greater than hers. This had happened a year ago, and since then a new baby had arrived, and the baby was rather sickly, and whenever Netty was not at school she was lugging the baby about or trying to rock him to sleep. She was baby's nurse, and she was not at all sorry, for she loved the baby and the occupation gave her time to dream. Netty had big dark-blue eyes, which showed bigger and darker than ever in the midst of her whit
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